Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1987. House.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- second-zinc-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor House, Tintagel
- OS grid reference
- SX 056 874
- Coordinates
- 50.65414, -4.75144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a house that possibly dates from the late 16th century. It is constructed of slate stone rubble and features a rag Delabole slate roof on the left and a lower Spanish slate roof on the right, both with gable ends. There is a stone rubble axial stack on the left where the house adjoins a later cottage, an axial stone rubble stack between the two ranges, and a stone rubble stack on the right-hand gable end.
The plan of the house has been significantly altered due to 19th and 20th-century remodelling, making the original arrangement uncertain. The left-hand range may be earlier and originally consisted of a two-room layout with a central cross or through passage, indicated by a blocked opening on the front. A turreted stair in a projection at the rear of the probable right-hand room suggests access to the chamber above this range, implying that if the right-hand range is an extension, it is likely from the early 17th century. Alternatively, if the right-hand range is contemporary, the original plan may have been a three-room layout with a cross or through passage, where the right-hand inner room would have been considerably larger than the hall. Around the 19th century, the earlier entrance was partly blocked, and a lobby entrance was likely added.
The house is two storeys tall with an asymmetrical three-window front. The masonry in the left-hand range has been rebuilt above the ground floor, likely when the eaves were raised, and there is a straight joint between the right and left-hand ranges directly above the entrances. On the ground floor, there are two 20th-century PVC windows with dressed stone segmental arches, with the second window located in a blocked door opening. A circa 19th-century stone rubble porch with a gabled roof and a 20th-century PVC window is situated to the right. The first floor features two 16-pane horned sash windows on the left and a 16-pane horned sash window in a half dormer with a raking roof on the right.
The interior has been remodelled, with renewed ceiling beams and altered partitions. A newel stair is located near the central axial stack, but the first floor and roof structure are not accessible.
Local climate
Manor House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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